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title: The mode in which the pagan legend sometimes put on a Christian inte… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The mode in which the pagan legend sometimes put on a Christian interpretation is especially illustrated in the ‘Children of Lir.’ A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 1

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The mode in which the pagan legend sometimes put on a Christian interpretation is especially illustrated in the ‘Children of Lir.’

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**What happens:** put, illustrate · **To what, where:** pagan legend, mode

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This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:2:1
# text = The mode in which the pagan legend sometimes put on a Christian interpretation is especially illustrated in the ‘Children of Lir.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mode	mode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	pagan	pagan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	interpretation	interpretation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	illustrated	illustrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Lir	Lir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | participle · passive |  | the pagan legend |  | the mode |  | on a Christian interpretation; sometimes *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on interpretation=Destination |
| 2 | **illustrate** | present · passive |  | the mode |  |  |  | in the Children of Lir; especially *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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